Floating plastics?

[Slyster]

I am going to try some drop shot and shakey head setups this summer... where can I get some floating plastics? Like Strike King 3X is one I think I heard of...

Fleet Farm didn't have any.. I looked today.. and they usually have everything!

[Deitz Dittrich]

try one of the larger sporting goods stores, IE gander or cabelas...

However, you do not need floating plastics for dropshot.. I use regular plastics.

[river rat316]

Handpour plastics (without salt added) float up nicely on a shakey or standup, alot of the "production" plastics will also standup on a good standup jig just look for stuff without salt or a lower salt content (salt causes them to sink). The thing about 3x that I don't like is its so stringy it grabs on to the point of the hook or the barb and wont slide out of the way for a good hookset, that and there colors suck. For a dropshot theres tons of plastics that work good, and 3x is the last one Id think of, I hate to say it cause I normally don't like the stuff but GULP has a 3" minnow that Agape's bass up in Alex absolutely love on the dropshot, if I were you I would google "handpour plastic lures" or something along that line and look at all the good handpour stuff out there, you get an awesome product and support a small AMERICAN business!

[Central Bassman]

Im really looking forward to using the new Shaky Head worms... Gulp and Powerbait

[MattWtech]

good god i got those gulp floater worms, dont let any air get them in the bag they get rock hard. and be sure to take it off the hook after your done i had to get a razor and cut it off the hook once i got home, those floaters dry like cement after about a half hour sitting out, not in the water. goofy materials they got nowadays!

besides that i did an experiement and they looked pretty sexy with that tail pointing straight up on a shakey set up

[Slyster]

Are you saying Gulp and Powerbait are going to offer plastics specifically for shaky head fishing?

Still new to both these techniques.. shaky head is on the bottom only right? And drop shot is kind of too.. with the weight bouncing on the bottom while the plastics is around 2-3 feet up right?

Can't wait to try some new setups... I am too dependant on wacky rigged stickbaits!

[Deitz Dittrich]

sly- A ton of different plastics can be used for shakey head fishing, jig worm, dropshot.. Berkley and gulp already make stuff that can be used for all these techniques. Sly shoot me an e-mail.. I might even be willing to swing down to your backyard some day this summer.

[Central Bassman]

Berkley has came out with a Shaky Head Worm both in Gulp and Powerbait. I like the way it looks so fare. I might trim mine down a little but will see. I LOVE FISHING A SHAKY HEAD worm...

[ocf1]

i just bought a pack of gulp shakey heads..... look pretty good to me, but they still needto catch me a few bass

[Central Bassman]

cool... what color u get?

[Cabela10]

Can never go wrong with Green Pumpkin.

[ocf1]

watermelon, 5 inch version(theres also a 7????)